Experiments+in+the+Empirical+Digital+Humanities 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York September 28-October 3, 2014
 * Workshop **
 * Experiments in the Empirical Digital Humanities **


 * Invited discussants: Sharon Traweek and Luis Felipe Murillo, UCLA **

Sharon Traweek is an historian and anthropologist of science at the University of California - Los Angeles, and author of //Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physics.// Her current research examines data practices among anthropologists, astronomers, historians, and physicists, in Denmark, Japan, Germany, Sweden, the UK, and the US. Traweek is a founding participant in the STS Disaster Research Network, and in the Research Data Alliance’s Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group. Traweek is also a long-running consultant to The Asthma Files project.

Luis Felipe Murillo is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and is completing a PhD in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 2008, he has been working on a multi-sited research project on Free Software, Open Hardware, and Open Data, conducting life-history interviews with developers, engineers, and activists from different parts of the globe. He is a member of the organizing committee of the International Free Software Forum (FISL).



4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (Fortuns) Digital Empirical Humanities and the Semantic eScience Framework
 * Sunday, September 28 **

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (Fortuns) Worlding Anthropologies of/in Technosciences 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Call-in, Anthropologies of/and Technosciences Book/Workshop Project 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PECE and/for Worlding Anthropologies of Technosciences 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Worlding Anthropologies Workshop Proposal
 * Monday, September 28 **

10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. (Sage 3205) PECE: Building Out and Evaluating “Design Logics” 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (Sage 4304) Call-in, RDA Digital Practices in History & Ethnography Interest Group 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (Sage 4711) Future Directions with the Research Data Alliance (with Fran Berman) 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Next Steps: PECE + RDA
 * Tuesday, September 29 **

10:00 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. (Sage 4711) PECE: Graphics and Work Flows 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (Sage 3510) Traweek Colloquium: “Changing Data Practices Among Anthropologists, Astronomers, Historians & Physicists” 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (STS Lounge) Traweek, Murillo and STS Grad Students
 * Wednesday, October 1 **

10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.(Sage 4304) PECE and The Asthma Files 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. PECE Use Cases 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Toward Ethnographies of Data Practices
 * Thursday, October 2 **

10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m (Union 3502) PECE and the Disaster-STS Research Network 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Latour for Lunch 2:00 pm. – 3:00 p.m. Workshop Wrap-Up
 * Friday, October 3 **